Zani Zartashah

22/11/2015
SBI3U1

The Circulatory System

1. The circulatory system is the life support system that feeds your cells with
food and oxygen.
2. Three parts of the circulatory system are the heart, the blood vessels and the
blood.
3. The size of your heart is the size of your fist. The heart is shaped like a cone.
It is located in the center of your chest between the lungs.
4. The four chambers of the heart are the right atrium, left atrium, right
ventricle, and left ventricle.
5. The valves keep blood from flowing backwards making sure to keep blood
flowing in only ONE DIRECTION.
6. The circulatory system is to carry materials to and from all the parts of the
body.
7. The heart is made up a bundle of cardiac muscles.
8. The heart pumps by contacting and relaxing.
9. When the top part of the heart contracts, he bottom relaxes. When the
bottom contracts the top relaxes. In detail, when the atria contract, the
tricuspid and bicuspid valves open. When the ventricles contracts, the
pulmonary and aortic valves open. Blood is pumped out to the lungs and
body. The valves between the atria and ventricles slam shut.
10.The blood flows through the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left
ventricle.
11.After the blood leaves the right ventricle it is pushed past another valve into
a blood vessel, this blood vessel goes to the lungs.
12.The blood picks up oxygen in the lungs.
13.After blood leaves the left ventricle it is pushed past a valve into a blood
vessel.
14.14. Blood rich in oxygen goes to the body.
15.The circulatory system is a closed system which means that blood stays
inside the heart and vessels as it circulates.
16.Three kinds of blood vessels are: arteries, veins and capillaries.
17.The purpose of the blood vessels is to form an intricate transportation
network to service every cell.
18.In the arteries, blood moves away from the heart.
19.In the veins blood moves towards the heart.
20.Capillaries are tiny vessels which connect the arteries to the veins. They are
found between arteries and veins.
21.At the capillaries, food and oxygen pass from the blood to our cells. Also
carbon dioxide and waste products pass from the cells to the blood.
22.Blood must go to the lungs before it can go to the body so that it can pick up
oxygen.
23.Blood rich in oxygen should be in the arteries.
24.
25.Blood lacking oxygen should be in the veins
26.
27.No because the blood is deoxygenated after it goes around the body and
must go to the lungs to get oxygenated again.

Zani Zartashah
22/11/2015
SBI3U1
28.Capillaries take materials to the cell.
29.The two parts of blood are plasma and living cells.
30.Four functions of plasma are it transports:
The blood cells
The dissolved food to our cells
The waste from our cells
The blood-clotting materials
31.The three kind of blood cells are red blood cells, white blood cells and
platelets.
32.The red blood cells carry oxygen.
33.Hemoglobin is a chemical in the red blood cells that carries the oxygen. It
also gives the cells their red colour.
34.The white blood cells fight infections and disease germs.
35.The white cell count goes up when there is an infection because more of
white blood cells are needed in order to fight the infection.
36.Platelets help stop bleeding by giving off chemicals. These chemicals
combine with other chemicals in the plasma to form a blood clot to stop
bleeding.
37.The function of blood is to carry most of the materials necessary for life.
38.Three parts of the circulatory system are the blood, blood vessels and the
heart.
39.The function of the circulatory system is to carry materials to and from all
parts of the body.
40.The key idea of this chapter is the circulatory system and how it operates
inside the body in order for us to survive.